What contributed to the victory of the Union over the Confederacy in the Civil War?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. A Union victory at the Battle of Vicksburg gave the North control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederate states.
b. A Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg stopped the northern advance of the Confederate forces and forced them to retreat.
c. The Union had more people and resources and could thus afford more losses than the Confederacy.
d. A series of Union victories under the command of William T. Sherman, Phil Sheridan, and David Farragut wore down Confederate forces.
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What was the most significant outcome of the Boston Massacre?
a. It demonstrated to the colonists that British troops were largely symbolic and the British would back down in the face of organized resistance. b. It demonstrated to the colonists that British troops had no effective way to restore order in the colonies. c. It showed that the colonists had a better organized army than the British and would be difficult to defeat. d. It was the first act of organized resistance against the British troops in the colonies. e. It demonstrated to the colonists that British troops would resort to violence to restore order in the colonies.
The Slaughterhouse cases of 1873 are significant because the Supreme Court
A) ruled that where civil courts were functioning, civilians could not be tried by military courts or commissions. B) argued that Congress had the power to ensure each state a republican form of government. C) chipped away at the Fourteenth Amendment by saying it only protected the basic rights of national citizenship, not rights that fell to citizens by virtue of their state citizenship. D) decided that the Fifteenth Amendment did not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone. E) ruled that congressional Reconstruction governments were unconstitutional because they had been forced upon the south.
Genetically, a female is defined as a person who has ________ chromosomes and a male is defined as one who has ________ chromosome.
A. two X; more than one Y B. two X; an X and a Y C. sex; a gender D. two Y; an X and a Y
The 1950s political science doctrine which argued that interest groups would hold countervailing power to giant corporations was called
a. capitalist autocracy. b. socialism. c. pluralism. d. political power elites. e. economic democracy.